Month: July 2017
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There appears to be an increasing number of articles saying that the NAACP has taken a softer tone or even rolled back the 2016 call for a charter moratorium. In this blog post I’ll set the record straight based on my personal perspectives. On the first point, my read is that the leaders and members…
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I just returned from the 2017 NAACP national convention in Baltimore. Two important events occurred. The first I’m not going to talk about here on Cloaking Inequity until after the NAACP National Board meeting in the fall— I learned my lesson last year :). Second, the NAACP’s Task Force on High Quality Education released a…
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I am in Baltimore at the NAACP’s 2017 National Convention. https://www.instagram.com/p/BW5QniOlwDL/?taken-by=professorjvh https://www.instagram.com/p/BW38lGulGSv/?taken-by=professorjvh https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889258199030927360 https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889194282925666306 https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889120240935858176 https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889119669101219841 https://www.instagram.com/p/BW0ekMmF9iv/?taken-by=professorjvh https://www.instagram.com/p/BW0NxaGlHsj/?taken-by=professorjvh Much will happen here that you will probably see in the news soon. I believe the NAACP is reinvigorated to take on education issues. More info very soon. But for now, the NAACP’s National Education Department recently…
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During the past decade the number of students in charter schools has nearly tripled, with approximately 3.1 million students enrolled in 2016-17. In fact, one in eight black students now attends a charter in the United States. But while the popularity of charters is growing, so is concern about charter schools, particularly in the civil rights community and among grassroots educators…
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I am not able to blog as much as I have in the past because of my faculty responsibilities at California State, public speaking engagements and contributing behind the scenes to game-changing projects. One of the game-changing projects that I have worked on over the past several months was the NEA Charter Taskforce. As the…
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